If you are familiar with this guide for previous versions of Maximo, it is a recommended best practice that is referred to regularly for general system tuning and performance. Finally, the Best Practices for System Performance 7.6.x has been released!! Having a quick skim through this there are quite a few changes in all areas, so it is highly recommended you review these for your existing environment or if you plan to upgrade to Maximo version 7.6 to ensure your system is performing as per recommended. For Example,... [More]

Let’s face it. You’re busy! You get 100 emails a day; you’re on conference calls from morning to night and forget about the projects you’re leading. As you blast through your email, and try to get feedback, you compose countless emails knowing full well what you need but not really thinking about what the recipient needs. Your subject lines are blank or say something like “FYI”, or “Please Read”. Half of the messages are forwarded from someone who forwarded from... [More]

Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Not only are these three words critical to insuring a sustainable environment, but they can also be critical to how we approach reporting. Reduce the number of custom reports you design, develop, test, administer and maintain. Reuse functionality to meet varying user business needs. Recycle what you have learned, and apply to existing and future releases T oday, I’m going to focus on reusing functionality - - specifically with Report Object Structures (ROS). A few... [More]

If you are an IBM client, business partner, consultant, or even a IBM Maximo developer you should be following the Maximo Development Best Practices when customizing Maximo Business Objects (MBO's). As a Maximo developer and Lab Advocate, I have dealt with many clients who have extended Maximo business objects and have made their own customizations. When extending the MBO's you should be aware that if done incorrectly, it could lead your end users to experience poor performance, out of memory errors and/or system crashes amongst... [More]